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Kanye West in Tirana: Has a Global Spectacle Become a Political Backfire?

Planned before Albania’s protest movement began, the concert was intended to strengthen the country’s international profile. But public financing, free tickets and a radically changed political context turned it into a debate

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Diana Gellçi’s Question to Reinier de Graaf: What Would You Say Today?

Tirana Times , July 09, 2026 – Tirana Times is publishing below an open public question addressed by Albanian scholar Diana Gellçi, PhD, an Albanian professor based in the United States, to Dutch

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Are Europe’s Star Architects Helping Launder Albania’s Criminal Economy?

The Albanian Files suggests that international architecture may have served not only as design, but as a prestigious façade for opaque money, captured institutions and one-man rule. Tirana Times, June 29, 2026

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Gallup: Staggering two-thirds of Albanian adults willing to leave country

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TIRANA, Dec, 13 – Willingness to migrate among resident Albanians has almost doubled in the past decade to rank the country fourth globally for the desire to leave with around two-thirds of

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AIIS regional conference: Rethinking Albania’s foreign policy amid growing populism

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TIRANA, Dec. 12 – Albania’s foreign policy has been crucial in the country’s opening up and economic development following the collapse of the communist regime in the early 1990s, but a quarter

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Offshore tax haven has €30 mln Albania projects cancelled over cheating authorities

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TIRANA, Dec. 11 – The ease at which a newly established Albanian company claimed two major public contracts, worth a total of €30 million, by falsifying links to a US-based parent company

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Albania’s Partizani emerge top favorites for long-awaited Superliga title

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TIRANA, Dec. 10 – Albania’s Partizani have emerged as top favorites to claim a long-awaited Superliga title this season in what could be a major triumph for an elite Albanian club that

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Euro’s free fall, sharp hike in business closures hit Albania government revenue

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Dec. 10 – The euro’s free fall and more business closures are hitting government revenue which continue underperforming even after a mid-year budget cut. Finance ministry data shows

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Protests as a Response to the Gap Between the Government and the People

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BY Alfoc Rakaj Albania’s sluggish transition to a fully functioning market economy and a consolidated democracy has progress in parallel with the concentration of power and wealth into few urban areas. As

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Editorial: The ‘peripheries’ revolt

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Over three days, what began as “some failing university students’ revolt,” according to the government, speedily turned into a well-synchronized protest of hundreds of students which the country’s opposition

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US giant Hyatt takes over former Sheraton Tirana management

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TIRANA, Dec. 6 – US-based giant Hyatt has entered Albania where it will manage a former Sheraton hotel that in early 2018 was purchased and rebranded by an Albanian investor, filling a

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‘Turning migration to advantage,’ experts unveil way out of one of Albania’s top threats

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Dec. 6 – Turning migration from an issue into advantage would require transforming the Albanian economy into more dynamic by easing domestic and foreign investment, experts say. Albanian

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Proposed legal changes target final solution to long-standing property issue

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TIRANA, Dec. 5 – Albania is trying to give a permanent solution to the long-standing issue of unclear property titles through legal changes which it says will bring an end to the

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Easier market access offered to first Albania homemade traditional products

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Dec. 5 – Local homemade traditional products in Permet, a southern Albanian historic town, are well known throughout Albania, but as in much of the country face difficulty

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Kanye West in Tirana: Has a Global Spectacle Become a Political Backfire?

Diana Gellçi’s Question to Reinier de Graaf: What Would You Say Today?

Are Europe’s Star Architects Helping Launder Albania’s Criminal Economy?

Gallup: Staggering two-thirds of Albanian adults willing to leave country

AIIS regional conference: Rethinking Albania’s foreign policy amid growing populism

Offshore tax haven has €30 mln Albania projects cancelled over cheating authorities

Albania’s Partizani emerge top favorites for long-awaited Superliga title

Euro’s free fall, sharp hike in business closures hit Albania government revenue

Protests as a Response to the Gap Between the Government and the People

Editorial: The ‘peripheries’ revolt

US giant Hyatt takes over former Sheraton Tirana management

‘Turning migration to advantage,’ experts unveil way out of one of Albania’s top threats

Proposed legal changes target final solution to long-standing property issue

Easier market access offered to first Albania homemade traditional products

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In a depopulating Albania, why is the PM campaigning on a promise to make it easier for young people to leave?

Op/Ed: Is Albania slipping into a one-party system?

From staunch enemy to strategic partner: Albanian-American relations in transition

Editorial: Returning to the real agenda of Albania -Kosovo relations: start with respect.

Albanian-Turkish relations: The perils of change

Deconstructing myths in Albanian-U.S. relations

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